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Kiszla: After winning Game 7 for Nuggets, Nikola Jokic was too pooped to dance. So a reborn basketball city got up and danced for him.

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When it was finally over, and the Nuggets had won a playoff series for the first time in a decade by beating San Antonio 90-86 Saturday night, center Nikola Jokic was so tired he could not take another step. Too pooped to raise a fist much less pump it, Joker put hands on his knees
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“He’s our general”: Jamal Murray rebounds as Nuggets seize control of first-round series

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SAN ANTONIO — About 20 minutes after the Nuggets had seized control of their first-round series against the Spurs, Jamal Murray stood outside of the interview room Saturday spinning a basketball on his finger and tossing bounce passes off the wall in the corridors of the AT&T Center. Evidently, he hadn’t feasted enough during the
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Spurs at Nuggets Game 7 live blog: Real-time updates from the NBA playoffs

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Colorado Avalanche vs. San Jose Sharks playoff predictions

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Denver Post staffers make their predictions for the Avalanche and Sharks in the Western Conference semifinals. Game 1 is 8 p.m. Friday at San Jose. Mike Chambers, beat reporter Avs in 6 Due to the Sharks’ injuries and the Avalanche’s recent surge in each aspect of the game, Colorado is poised to advance to the
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San Antonio Spurs at Denver Nuggets: Game 7 keys to victory

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LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan. San Antonio’s two stars were ruthless in their Game 6 win. No shield from Paul Millsap or Torrey Craig can do anything contrary to their torrent of jumpers and leaners that are fading. According to Nuggets coach Michael Malone, the Spurs shot 20-of-29 on midrange jumpers. That’s one which will
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Denver Sports Omelette: Cowboy up! Cale Makar and Avalanche ready for Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs

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Cowboy up! The Colorado Avalanche have had a few days to dust themselves off after beating up on the No. 1-seeded Calgary Flames in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The triumph in Game 5 at Calgary advanced the Avs into the second round of the playoffs for the first time in more
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Kiszla: Can’t ignore big, white elephant in the room. Nikola Jokic among NBA’s five best players in 2019.

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Underneath exactly the exact same basket Nikola Jokic rattled with a thunderous dunk that brought down the house, there sat linebacker Von Miller, wearing a No. 15 Nuggets jersey. In the first row near midcourt, Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon leaned forward in a prime seat, savoring each one of Joker’s 16 points, 11 rebounds and
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Avalanche podcast: Avs win first NHL playoff series since 2008, what’s next and Milan Hejduk

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Denver Post hockey writer Mike Chambers visits with former Avalanche great Milan Hejduk at the latest episode of Traffic In Front of the Net. Hejduk, with his No. 23 retired from the Pepsi Center rafters, discusses the Avs’ first playoff-series victory since 2008 — when he was the right winger on a line with Joe
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Nuggets throttle Spurs in pivotal Game 5, take 3-2 series lead

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The Nuggets know they’re the better team. It only took them until Game 5 to prove it. Sooner or later, their confidence was likely to overwhelm. That flooding came in the form of an 108-90 rout of San Antonio on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center, giving the Nuggets a commanding 3-2 lead in their
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Kiszla: LaMarcus Aldridge finally gives Nuggets fans what a too-polite basketball city needs, a villain to boo

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They’re Nuggets to crack, as LaMarcus “Low Blow” Aldridge and those basketball bullies down in San Antonio have found. In this NBA playoff series, have the Spurs come undone? We all know the Nuggets have nowhere close to the championship pedigree of a proud San Antonio franchise and harbor ’t even won a match in
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